Digital BW, The Print

Not to be too much of a naysayer here, but none of these images, calibrated or not, seem quite right to me. I'd have to interject with specific manual edits on all of them. Moreover, in looking at the image file starting points, I'm pretty sure it would be relatively easy to "fix" any one of them to my liking with said manual intervention.  Hence, I'm not sure I would want bother with any type of "camera calibration" software for typical photography events. The RAW starting points on all of the images seem more than adequate as a satisfactory point to begin the final edits for "pleasing color and tone" as far as I'm concerned.

That said, I do use camera profiling software when doing fine art repro. Most of these software approaches rely on shooting a Macbeth Color checker chart under same light/exposure conditions, then using the chart data to build a camera profile. Once again, none of the software I've used seems to calibrate well to all hue, saturation, and lightness values of the color checker chart.  Lightness values seem to be entirely left alone, which means further and quite significant manual edits. Tonal mapping might be an area where some creative software programming could make an intelligent contribution to the camera calibration conundrum.

best,
Mark


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